Emerging Infections Then & Now: From the Influenza Pandemic to the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis
September 25, 2018 | 6:30pm – 9:00pm
6:30pm – 6:45pm – Welcoming remarks
- Scott Podolsky, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine; Director, Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library of Medicine
- Daniel Lucey, Senior Scholar, O’Neill Institute; Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Law, Georgetown University; Anthropology Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
6:45pm – 8:15pm – Public Discussion
- Allan Brandt, Professor of the History of Science; Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine
6:45pm – 8:15pm – Public discussion
- Michele Barry, Senior Associate Dean of Global Health; Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health; Professor of Medicine; Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Evironment and Freeman Spogli Institute all at Stanford University
- Ramanan Laxminarayan, Founder & Director, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP); Senior Research Scholar & Lecturer, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University; Affiliate Professor, University of Washington; Visiting Professor, University of Kwazulu Natal
- Eugene Richardson, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Marcia Castro, Professor of Demography, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of History of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Emmanuel Akyeampong, Ellen Gurney Professor of History; Professor of African and African American Studies; Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies at Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Jesse Bump, Lecturer on Global Health Policy; Executive Director of the Takemi Program, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Moderator: Scott Podolsky, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine; Director, Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library of Medicine
8:15pm – 8:20pm – Closing remarks
- Scott Podolsky, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine; Director, Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library of Medicine
8:20pm – 9:00pm – Exhibition viewing
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